I'm sure they'll all start doing that right after you stop wasting time on slashdot and start getting the economy back on its feet and fighting crime in the big cities.
This place is nothing but a haven for anti-Microsoft bias. It's not pro-Linux.
Nonsense. I've seen a lot of Pro-MS posts. Usually they begin with, "I'm going to get modded down for this..." and you see them as Score: 5 Insightful. Take a look around for christ sakes.
Yet they are the most vocal.
Perhaps on Slashdot, but I doubt Linus is listening to immature 13 year olds harping out their leet OS. Frankly, no real developers are listening to them either. They don't matter, never did, and never will. Being vocal isn't helpful if no one is listening.
Let's face it, Linux and its community of developers will never be accepted professionally beause of their unprofessional attitudes. This extends to the ugly GUIs to the bizarre, "cute," in-joke acronym project names, to the anti-Microsoft hatred that drives everything.
You know, thats really swell. Clue: Linux isn't made for big business, its made for US! That business finds it useful is purely a nice little bonus. Linus didn't decide to make an OS for business to use freely, he made an OS for him and people who enjoyed computing to use.
Honestly, you would think a BSD fanboi would at least understand the last part. You seem to have the delusion that Slashdot User == Average Linux User. Pretty far from it. Take a look at some linux open source projects, do you really see them with "I created this because I HATE MICROSOFT I HATE THEM SO MUCH! OMG!!11!" Of course you don't, because that doesn't exist.
BSD is the real professional, secure community around here. Linux feels like it's fueled by Microsoft hatred.
I seriously doubt any BSD developers would even want to be associated with someone with that kind of attitude -- not if they actually want to be 'real professional'.
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." and "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line." but only slightly less well known is "Never get into a legal battle with a University when IP involved!"
Maybe your right actually, I was thinking like everyone else is this bad but that last bit seems like it could be true.
My understanding is that Red Hat could let Fedora use the Red Hat trademark... but any users coping the CD's would have to get RH's permission, or manually remove all the logos, which is obviously silly.
Thats a good reason, and I'm not sure if there would be any other way around it other then to change the name like they did.
I don't use RedHat, but even so, I think RH's been a good thing for linux and I'd be upset if anything bad happened to it;(
Why? Because installing and playing with new software turns out to be a pretty fun replacement for games. Games are pretty sweet, Linux has a growing little number of them. But I mean...
I can't be the only one who finds updates fun, can I?;)
I don't know. I once heard that a really fat man would actually float nicely in salt water. Its probably bullshit, but... I imagine if Universal was a man, it'd be pretty fat. So maybe!
Ah yes, and then, on to find some aliens. That'll be a grand day!
AT LAST, we will be able to return to the profitable, enjoyable and delightfully evil Slave Economy! I'm buying my white plantation suit in anticipation right now.
Cloning isn't widely regarded as positive in the Linux community. You are acting as if we believe it to be a great solution --- which we know its not.
These kind of posts are rather stupid attacks on Linux users. Even if your little statement was absolutely correct, whats your point? That linux users are harsh on Microsoft? Lots of people are.
Suggesting that linux users are blindly accepting a double standard is absurd, no such thing is happening. Even take a look on Slashdot, which is IMO not at all representative of the Linux community, you see a lot of people critizing the act of cloning.
Canada is a lousy place to hide from Microsoft. Anything MS does in the states basically happens up here, only our useless gov't just lets it happen. If MS was based in Canada primarily, there never would have been a suit against MS in the first place.
Yeah, it sucks. You can bet _I_ won't be buying this game. But I'll bet that 99% of the/. crowd will anyway. Almost no one really cares when a small guy gets his project squished by some corporate asshole, as long as its not them being squished. They pay lip service and grumble to themselves about how much it Blizzard has gone downhill and need to be boycotted. Well, as I said above you can bet those guys will be first in lime to buy the game. As long as it entertains them. Blizzard can act like pricks becasue they know that people are fickle as a general rule and probably less then 0.0001% of gamers even noticed when they took down bnetd. They also know that probably 1/10 of that percentage will not buy their game because of it. Which, amounts to as far as I concerned about 10 guys.
Yeah, I did just made up those numbers but really, the number of ppl who won't buy the game because of their poor actions is so small. They can act however they want and they know a slashdot reviewer will be giving them a shining review if only they send them a copy.
"Blizzard sucks! Run out and buy your copy of WC3 Now!"
What an absurd question. Why? Because we can dammit! Because there are people like me who sit around all day and nitpick over the tiny details about their computing experience.
I mean, its linux right? Sometimes its not the filesystem that matters, but the arguements over WHY a particular fs. Or even the arguements over why we need arguements about argueing over an fs.
Good luck to microsoft?... What? Microsoft can do just about -anything- and get away with it. MS doesn't need luck, they make their own MS Luck(TM).
No matter what they do, they just make a press release with their new product saying "Our new Microsoft Windows Elite Edition XP Professional, its now more stable and secure, and it fixes that problem that upset everyone!" and everyone will lap it right up and tada, suddenly everyone loves MS again. Oh, and everyone will "upgrade" to fix the problem, whatever it is, making them a fast buck.
Slashdot Mirror
Ha! Nice try. You mac nerds can try and give Commands, but we Linux people are in Control.
Give me Control anyday. And thats not even bringing up the Break key. Break, I mean, that tops it off right there. If only it was used more often.
I'm sure they'll all start doing that right after you stop wasting time on slashdot and start getting the economy back on its feet and fighting crime in the big cities.
--SD
What a stupid, meaningless, content-free post.
This place is nothing but a haven for anti-Microsoft bias. It's not pro-Linux.
Nonsense. I've seen a lot of Pro-MS posts. Usually they begin with, "I'm going to get modded down for this..." and you see them as Score: 5 Insightful. Take a look around for christ sakes.
Yet they are the most vocal.
Perhaps on Slashdot, but I doubt Linus is listening to immature 13 year olds harping out their leet OS. Frankly, no real developers are listening to them either. They don't matter, never did, and never will. Being vocal isn't helpful if no one is listening.
Let's face it, Linux and its community of developers will never be accepted professionally beause of their unprofessional attitudes. This extends to the ugly GUIs to the bizarre, "cute," in-joke acronym project names, to the anti-Microsoft hatred that drives everything.
You know, thats really swell. Clue: Linux isn't made for big business, its made for US! That business finds it useful is purely a nice little bonus. Linus didn't decide to make an OS for business to use freely, he made an OS for him and people who enjoyed computing to use.
Honestly, you would think a BSD fanboi would at least understand the last part. You seem to have the delusion that Slashdot User == Average Linux User. Pretty far from it. Take a look at some linux open source projects, do you really see them with "I created this because I HATE MICROSOFT I HATE THEM SO MUCH! OMG!!11!" Of course you don't, because that doesn't exist.
BSD is the real professional, secure community around here. Linux feels like it's fueled by Microsoft hatred.
I seriously doubt any BSD developers would even want to be associated with someone with that kind of attitude -- not if they actually want to be 'real professional'.
Your entire post is just pure crap.
--SD
Hey, don't laff. Thats how Microsoft seems to be working.
Evidently, there is something to it.
--SD
Those FOOLS
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." and "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line." but only slightly less well known is "Never get into a legal battle with a University when IP involved!"
bwahhaahahah!!
!
Only its not the friendly image "Big Brother" watching us -- its "Big Bill"s learing visage!
--SD
Just wait till the conversation gets to the "So how long are you in for?" part, then it becomes absurd. ;P
bleh.
Hmmmm.
;(
Maybe your right actually, I was thinking like everyone else is this bad but that last bit seems like it could be true.
My understanding is that Red Hat could let Fedora use the Red Hat trademark... but any users coping the CD's would have to get RH's permission, or manually remove all the logos, which is obviously silly.
Thats a good reason, and I'm not sure if there would be any other way around it other then to change the name like they did.
I don't use RedHat, but even so, I think RH's been a good thing for linux and I'd be upset if anything bad happened to it
Suuuh-wheat!! Does this work? I'm gonna go try that right now! I've totally been looking for a replacement for my restrictive propietary toaster!
Thanks for the suggestion dude!
--SD
Absolutely I do.
;)
Why? Because installing and playing with new software turns out to be a pretty fun replacement for games. Games are pretty sweet, Linux has a growing little number of them. But I mean...
I can't be the only one who finds updates fun, can I?
Good god, but thats the lamest superpower I've heard of in a while.
Thats actually lamer than aquaman.
And thats saying something.
I don't know. I once heard that a really fat man would actually float nicely in salt water. Its probably bullshit, but ... I imagine if Universal was a man, it'd be pretty fat. So maybe!
--SD
Ah yes, and then, on to find some aliens. That'll be a grand day!
AT LAST, we will be able to return to the profitable, enjoyable and delightfully evil Slave Economy! I'm buying my white plantation suit in anticipation right now.
Are you trying to tell me you come to /. for the pr0n? Eh? Is there some ascii pr0n hidden at -1 that I am missing?
--SD
The US Copyright Office must be the hub for pirated copies of Office!
Cloning isn't widely regarded as positive in the Linux community. You are acting as if we believe it to be a great solution --- which we know its not.
These kind of posts are rather stupid attacks on Linux users. Even if your little statement was absolutely correct, whats your point? That linux users are harsh on Microsoft? Lots of people are.
Suggesting that linux users are blindly accepting a double standard is absurd, no such thing is happening. Even take a look on Slashdot, which is IMO not at all representative of the Linux community, you see a lot of people critizing the act of cloning.
Canada is a lousy place to hide from Microsoft. Anything MS does in the states basically happens up here, only our useless gov't just lets it happen. If MS was based in Canada primarily, there never would have been a suit against MS in the first place.
--SD
Yeah, it sucks. You can bet _I_ won't be buying this game. But I'll bet that 99% of the /. crowd will anyway. Almost no one really cares when a small guy gets his project squished by some corporate asshole, as long as its not them being squished. They pay lip service and grumble to themselves about how much it Blizzard has gone downhill and need to be boycotted. Well, as I said above you can bet those guys will be first in lime to buy the game. As long as it entertains them. Blizzard can act like pricks becasue they know that people are fickle as a general rule and probably less then 0.0001% of gamers even noticed when they took down bnetd. They also know that probably 1/10 of that percentage will not buy their game because of it. Which, amounts to as far as I concerned about 10 guys.
Yeah, I did just made up those numbers but really, the number of ppl who won't buy the game because of their poor actions is so small. They can act however they want and they know a slashdot reviewer will be giving them a shining review if only they send them a copy.
"Blizzard sucks! Run out and buy your copy of WC3 Now!"
They have "All our users are Objects too".
;)
Maybe its just my office, but we listen to mp3's a hell of a lot more then we make sales ;)
;(
er wait, I mean
--SD
Sure there is, I believe its called a "Line Conditioner".
--SD
Right, the perfect excuse!
"No! I'm not download pr0n... i'm mirroring this guys backups."
--SD
What an absurd question. Why? Because we can dammit! Because there are people like me who sit around all day and nitpick over the tiny details about their computing experience.
I mean, its linux right? Sometimes its not the filesystem that matters, but the arguements over WHY a particular fs. Or even the arguements over why we need arguements about argueing over an fs.
--SD
Good luck to microsoft? ... What? Microsoft can do just about -anything- and get away with it. MS doesn't need luck, they make their own MS Luck(TM).
No matter what they do, they just make a press release with their new product saying "Our new Microsoft Windows Elite Edition XP Professional, its now more stable and secure, and it fixes that problem that upset everyone!" and everyone will lap it right up and tada, suddenly everyone loves MS again. Oh, and everyone will "upgrade" to fix the problem, whatever it is, making them a fast buck.
Argh is MS Frusterating(TM).
Hmmmm. You know, I think that actually sounds kinda interesting. I believe that I would enjoy a good arguement about that.
Let see next time we have a slow day, maybe it'll come up...
Besides, I mean, come on... a good arguement is better then just pressing reload until something truly new and incredibly comes up.
Ha! Like that will ever happen.